#altrarunning #altraredteam #abassadorofcrazy #feedyourcrazy | Run The Riot Podcast and Coaching https://www.theriot.run Cyber home of David Theriot......South Louisiana Cajun living near Tulsa, Oklahoma, IT Professional, Ultrarunning Coach, and Podcast Host Thu, 27 Dec 2018 03:38:34 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.theriot.run/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-RTR-For-Podcast-scaled-1-32x32.png #altrarunning #altraredteam #abassadorofcrazy #feedyourcrazy | Run The Riot Podcast and Coaching https://www.theriot.run 32 32 A Few 2018 Race Reflections https://www.theriot.run/2018-race-reflections/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2018-race-reflections https://www.theriot.run/2018-race-reflections/#respond Wed, 26 Dec 2018 22:52:03 +0000 http://www.theriot.run/?p=909 Prairie Spirit 100M - This is the picture in Ultrarunning Magazine. It’s been a pretty amazing year for running and…

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Prairie Spirit 100M - This is the picture in Ultrarunning Magazine.

It’s been a pretty amazing year for running and racing.  I kept a very busy schedule, but remained relatively injury free and was able to push past my previous, self imposed limits.  I was blessed to be able to run my personal best this past year in the marathon (3:03:37), 50K (4:00:57), 50 miles (7:10:55), and 100 miles (16:25:31)!  I won a 5K, 30K, 2 - 50Ks, a 50M, and a 100M race. Ultrarunning magazine had a full page picture of me running to a win in the Prairie Spirit 100M! Crazy!!  I had some podium finishes and AG awards in other races too. I was able to give 200 miles a shot at Lake Tahoe and had a blast getting it done in a respectable time!

Wolverine and Storm at Route 66 Marathon

Jen and I had a great time travelling to do some races together, dressing up, and having fun! You may have seen The Flash and Lady Flash, Wolverine and Storm, Batman and Robin, 80s characters, and Thor and Valkarie in various races.  I'm blessed to be able to enjoy this craziness with my amazing wife.  She was also so awesome crewing me for the Tahoe 200!

I was able to finish out the year with a 3rd place finish at Loup Garou 100 miler at Chicot State park in Louisiana. This was the perfect way to finish out the year for a few reasons. My first ultra was done on this course in 2013 as the Cajun Coyote 100M. It was good to do it again. It’s my “home” trail and I got to be supported and race surrounded by my friends, the amazing Mud N Guts crew!  Also, I DNF’d the last time I tried this course due to a tear in my calf muscle. I was able to get my redemption in spite of an ankle sprain at around mile 19!!

Here’s a quick list of 2018’s races this year:

  • 5K - 2
  • 15K - 1
  • Marathons - 6
  • 50Ks - 3
  • 50M - 2
  • 100M - 3
  • 200M - 1

A big thanks to Altra for allowing me to be on the Red Team and represent the brand I wore and believed in already.  Amazing shoes!!!

 

I’m looking forward to 2019!  I’ll be running Boston again in April.  Then, everything will be focused on Western States!  I’m so excited that I get to run it! I’m also hoping to get into Leadville!  Once I know if I get in, I will fill in the gaps with other races for training and just to race.  Be looking for Jen and I wearing ridiculous stuff she’s got planned and running random races wherever we can find them!

I’m incredibly blessed to get to run all these races!  I always put in the work to be my best…..so many miles in training for one race.  I love the process of tearing my body down and building it back up! Mining for potential. That word:  Potential. God has put great potential into all of us. Don’t squander it! Keep moving! Relentless Forward Progress!

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The post WS, LT100, LG, and Other Acronyms… first appeared on Run The Riot Podcast and Coaching.]]> So, I thought I’d do a quick post to offload the stuff going on in brain concerning ultra running this week.

 

First off, I GOT INTO WESTERN STATES!!!!  I may have yelled and threw my hands up, clenched fists of victory, when I heard my name called.  You’ll have to ask my wife if it’s true….or my neighbors.  Anyway, I’m fortunate to have had my name drawn with just my second year of trying.  In the midst of my extreme excitement, I feel the weight of this opportunity.  I plan on busting my hump and putting in the work to do my best for this race.  I’m still working on my race schedule for 2019 as everything now points to June 29th in Squaw Valley.  I’ve also entered the Leadville Lottery so we’ll see how that goes.

In the midst of all of this excitement, I’m running the Loup Garou 100 in my home state of Louisiana in a little over a week.  It’s held in Chicot State Park in Ville Platte, LA.  We’ll be running 5, 20 mile laps in the beautiful swamps around Lake Chicot.  I’m super excited to run the trail where I trained like crazy and ran my first  ultra, a 100 miler, for the Cajun Coyote 100 in 2013.  I returned to run that race again but had to drop due to a tear in my calf muscle.

Torn calf after dropping at 40 miles.

I have unfinished business.  I’m coming off of a really fun running year (I’ll write about all of that later) and figured it would be fitting to close it out where the ultra journey began for me.  My good friend, Edie, is race director for the LG and it’ll be great running her race and seeing all of my Louisiana friends who will be running and helping at aid stations.  Edie and this Louisiana crew have helped me so much as I navigated the choices in training, gear, nutrition, hydration, logistics and all that go into running long distances on the trails.  Yeah, it’ll be good to be back “home” doing what I love with a nutty, awesome group of people I love.

After Loup Garou, I’ll take some time off and rest before a few races early next year and the Boston Marathon in April.  Official Western States training begins on February 26th according to my spreadsheet.  Though, I can’t help to think that every mile in training and racing, whether on road or on trail, flat terrain or mountain, was in preparation…all building and strengthening me….physically, but also mentally, for the next big task.  This month it’s the Loup Garoup.  In June of 2019 it’ll be Western States.  I’m a blessed man.  Thankful for the life God gave me.  Thankful for all I get to do and those I get to do it with.

 

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